International Ballet Company Premieres New Choreography ...

This event brings together some of the area?s most talented young artists in a unique program including newly choreographed works by International Ballet Company Artistic Director, Miguel Campaneria and New York City Ballet member, Lauren Lovette. These works will feature live music provided by the Triangle Youth Philharmonic.

Miguel Campaneria was born in Cuba and was trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba under the guidance of Alicia Alonso, Fernando Alonso, and Azari Plisetski. He joined the National Ballet of Cuba and was promoted to soloist at the age of 17. He won the bronze medal in the junior category at the prestigious International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. Upon leaving Cuba, Mr. Campaneria joined the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer and subsequently joined the Ballets de San Juan as a principal dancer. In the summer of 1983, Mr. Campaneria accompanied fellow Ballets de San Juan principal, Maria Teresa del Real, to the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. Participating in the Competition as a non-competitor, Mr. Campaneria was awarded the special prize as Best Partner, and his experience proved beneficial in Miss del Real being awarded the bronze medal in the senior category at the Competition. Their performance in the Don Quixote Pas de Deux was lauded as the single most impressive event at the Competition. Both Mr. Campaneria and Miss del Real were invited to the White House by President Reagan to receive his personal congratulations on their achievements in Varna. In 1986 Mr. Campaneria joined the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer and in 1987 created the role of the Exhibition Dancer in Andre Prokovsky?s The Great Gatsby. In 1990, Mr. Campaneria left the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre to pursue a career as a freelance guest artist, master teacher and choreographer. In 1991 Mr. Campaneria joined Ballet Municipal de San Juan as a permanent guest artist and artistic advisor.?? From 2002-04 Mr. Campaneria was?artistic director of the R.M.T. Academie de Danse in Haiti.? In 2005 Mr. Campaneria was appointed artistic director of Balleteatro Nacional de Puerto Rico, and has choreographed for the company the full- length productions of Carmen, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Delirium and Paso a Dos. In October of 2007 Mr Campaneria was nominated by the White House to serve on the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts. He was confirmed by the Senate and will serve on the Council until 2012. Mr. Campaneria served as Chair of the Dance Department for the University of Hartford until July 2010.? He is currently the Artistic Director of the International Ballet Academy in Cary, North Carolina.

Lauren Lovette was born in Thousand Oaks, California and began studying ballet at the age of 11 when she studied with Rossana Machi Gahagan. She attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, during the summers of 2004 and 2005 and enrolled at SAB as a full time student in 2006. In October 2009, Ms. Lovette became an apprentice with NYCB and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in September 2010. Since joining NYCB, Ms. Lovette has performed featured roles in George Balanchine?s The Nutcracker (Dolls) and Christopher Wheeldon?s Polyphonia.? Ms. Lovette also originated roles in Christopher Wheeldon?s Estancia.? Ms. Lovette is currently on the Board of Directors for the International Ballet Company and is excited to be an integral part of this Cary based youth ballet company.

Rossana Nesta Gahagan started her classical ballet studies in Italy at the School of ?Balletto di Roma? and attended the ?Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Roma? where she earned her BA in Vaganova Ballet Technique, the highest teaching degree given by the Italian Ministry of Education. During a successful professional dancing career, Ms. Gahagan performed with nationally renowned companies in Italy, such as the Teatro dell?Opera and the Company of Balletto di Roma in Rome (Italy). Ms. Gahagan started her teaching career at the School of Balletto di Roma and was later invited to teach in summer programs in Messina, Agrigento, Catania and Venice.? In 1996, she was honored to be invited by the Director of La scuola di Ballo alla Scala, Mrs. Anna Maria Prina, to teach at the Ballet Summer Bozen Program in Milan, Italy. After teaching and performing in Europe for ten years, Mrs. Gahagan moved to the United States. She joined the faculty of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT).? In 2004 Ms. Gahagan relocated to Raleigh, NC where she joined a local ballet school and built the Intensive Summer Program. In 2010, Ms. Gahagan became one of the Artistic Directors of International Ballet Academy in Cary.

Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/event/international-ballet-company-premieres-new-choreography/

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